{"id":1632,"date":"2023-01-12T14:21:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T14:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2023-01-12T14:21:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T14:21:56","slug":"kidstuff-small-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=1632","title":{"rendered":"KIDSTUFF: SMALL TALK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Jayson Karan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I ASKED my daughter, who has just turned two, what kind of sweet she would like. She thought about it for a while and then said, &#8220;Two, please.&#8221;<br>R. Motsi, Harare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;DON&#8217;T YOU &#8216;no&#8217; me!&#8221; I said, scolding my five-year-old daughter. &#8220;Of course i do,&#8221; she replied. &#8220;You&#8217;re my mommy.&#8221;<br>J. Banda, Bulawayo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MY SISTER-IN-LAW was doing the laundry in the bathtub when i went to visit her. Her three year old answered the door and informed me that her mummy was bathing clothes<br>P. Dare, Zvishavane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MY LITTLE granddaughter asked me to please buy her some chewing gum because her mouth was getting bored.<br>B. M. Gore, Gweru.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WHILE WATCHING my mom open her Mother&#8217;s Day card my three-year old son asked, &#8220;Mummy, when will it be boys&#8217; day?&#8221;<br>H. Waja, Victoria Falls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MY DAUGHTER&#8217;S small friend fell asleep at our house one afternoon. When she woke up she said, &#8220;Hello, did you fall awake now?&#8221;<br>A. A. Rambaunesu, Kariba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I WAS SPENDING a leisurely Saturday afternoon tucked up on the settee with my favorite magazine. My two year old asked what i was reading and i replied, &#8220;LIVING and LOVING, dear.&#8221; A little later i found her on the settee, intently studying the magazine. She looked up at me and grinned, &#8220;I love reading this loving and kissing book.&#8221;<br>C. Huni, Masvingo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WHEN HER BABY brother was born my little granddaughter asked three, was asked, &#8221; Who is this lovely baby?&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s my mother&#8217;s and father&#8217;s son,&#8221; she replied.<br>J. Chuma, Kwekwe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MY YOUNG daughter was out wit her father when she saw a Dalmatian dog for the first time. &#8220;Look, Dad,&#8221; she exclaimed, &#8220;there&#8217;s a dog with raisins in it!&#8221;<br>J. Erai, Chegutu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MY TWO YEAR OLD Natalie love playing &#8220;This Little Pig Went To Market,&#8221; and when she asks me to play with her, she always says, &#8220;Please, Mommy, play pig went tomato sauce.&#8221;<br>M. Dzino, Kadoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jayson Karan I ASKED my daughter, who has just turned two, what kind of sweet she would like. She thought about it for a while and then said, &#8220;Two, please.&#8221;R.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/1633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}